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10 Dec 2016 5:27:29pm

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I'm surprised how much this useless and childlike 'wager' is mentioned on this program. As has been mentioned earlier in these comments, who on earth is to say god would reward one who became a Christian? If inything metaphysical exists, and it is to on extent or another a thinking, judging god involved in these metphysics (already an infinite number of possibilities as to this assertion), then there are infinite possibilities as to whether and how this god judges you on any given worship or behaviour.

Maybe catholic belief is true for god's afterlife rewards, or maybe Muslim belief is true, or Hindu, or Olympian Greek, or Dreamtime, or spagetti monster, or perhaps it's a god who says that only those who are blind from birth get rewarded, or those who have one blue and and one brown, or only those who cut their hair exactly every 74 days for their life's duration, or only those who lost in the third round of the Aus Open in every even numbered year, or...... you get the idea.

In the end you can 'wager' on becoming a Christian as Pascal tried to pressure you into doing, but you have a 1/infinte chance of being right. You have just as much chance of being rewarded in the afterlife by living like, and being, an atheist.

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